Tejaswini Sawant

Tokyo Games: Anjum Moudgil finished in 15th position during the 50m Rifle 3 Positions qualification. Meanwhile, Tejaswini Sawant was 33rd in qualification.

Tejaswini Sawant earned the Tokyo quota by finishing fifth in the qualifications with a score of 1171.

Former Goa CM Manohar Parrikar gave Rs 1 lakh to Tejaswini Sawant from his own pocket in 2005, five years before she became the first Indian woman shooter to win a gold medal at the World Championships.

Tejaswini Sawant smashed the Commonwealth Games record to clinch gold in women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions while Anjum bagged silver in the same event.

CWG 2018, Day 9, Highlights: Anish Bhanwala, aged 15, created history by becoming the country's youngest ever gold medal winner in the Commonwealth Games.

Tejaswini Sawant shot 618.9 in the final at Belmont Shooting Centre.

CWG 2018, Day 8, HIghlights: Sushil Kumar overpowered Johannes Botha of South Africa by technical superiority in the final. This is India's 14th gold medal at the Games.

Harpreet Singh wins the men's 25M Rapid Fire Pistol event where Olympic Silver Medalist Vijay Kumar fails to qualify for the finals.

Indian shooters flopped on a windy day at the Aoti Shooting range with the country's first woman world champion Tejaswini Sawant and Gagan Narang ending up way off target in their respective events at the Asian Games here on Monday.

Having failed to win a gold at the Commonwealth Games, world champion Tejaswini Sawant said she did not get enough time to prepare for the mega-event.

The first medal that came India's way on Day 8 of the Games was courtesy its shooters. Tejaswini Sawant and Meena Kumari won a Bronze medal in the 50m Rifle Prone women's pairs event.

Tejaswini, the first woman shooter to win a world championship gold, scored 575 (prone 194, standing 190, kneeling 191) while Lajja totalled 568, including a 193 in prone, but she fell behind in standing and kneeling stage, managing scores of 188 and 187.

Sahara India Pariwar on Tuesday felicitated Indian shooters Tejaswini Sawant, Gagan Narang and Asher Noria, who recently made the country proud by winning medals at the 50th ISSF World Shooting Championship in Munich, Germany.

Tejaswini Sawant on Sunday became the first Indian woman shooter to win a gold medal in the World Championships when she shot a 597 in the 50 mt rifle prone event to strike gold at Munich.

Tokyo Games: Anjum Moudgil finished in 15th position during the 50m Rifle 3 Positions qualification. Meanwhile, Tejaswini Sawant was 33rd in qualification.

Tejaswini Sawant earned the Tokyo quota by finishing fifth in the qualifications with a score of 1171.

Former Goa CM Manohar Parrikar gave Rs 1 lakh to Tejaswini Sawant from his own pocket in 2005, five years before she became the first Indian woman shooter to win a gold medal at the World Championships.

Tejaswini Sawant smashed the Commonwealth Games record to clinch gold in women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions while Anjum bagged silver in the same event.

CWG 2018, Day 9, Highlights: Anish Bhanwala, aged 15, created history by becoming the country's youngest ever gold medal winner in the Commonwealth Games.

Tejaswini Sawant shot 618.9 in the final at Belmont Shooting Centre.

CWG 2018, Day 8, HIghlights: Sushil Kumar overpowered Johannes Botha of South Africa by technical superiority in the final. This is India's 14th gold medal at the Games.

Harpreet Singh wins the men's 25M Rapid Fire Pistol event where Olympic Silver Medalist Vijay Kumar fails to qualify for the finals.

Indian shooters flopped on a windy day at the Aoti Shooting range with the country's first woman world champion Tejaswini Sawant and Gagan Narang ending up way off target in their respective events at the Asian Games here on Monday.

Having failed to win a gold at the Commonwealth Games, world champion Tejaswini Sawant said she did not get enough time to prepare for the mega-event.

The first medal that came India's way on Day 8 of the Games was courtesy its shooters. Tejaswini Sawant and Meena Kumari won a Bronze medal in the 50m Rifle Prone women's pairs event.

Tejaswini, the first woman shooter to win a world championship gold, scored 575 (prone 194, standing 190, kneeling 191) while Lajja totalled 568, including a 193 in prone, but she fell behind in standing and kneeling stage, managing scores of 188 and 187.

Sahara India Pariwar on Tuesday felicitated Indian shooters Tejaswini Sawant, Gagan Narang and Asher Noria, who recently made the country proud by winning medals at the 50th ISSF World Shooting Championship in Munich, Germany.

Tejaswini Sawant on Sunday became the first Indian woman shooter to win a gold medal in the World Championships when she shot a 597 in the 50 mt rifle prone event to strike gold at Munich.